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On this not-Canada-Day-themed episode of the Well Reds podcast, host Charlie Demers is joined by journalist Leigh Phillips (bylines in Jacobin, The Guardian/author of Austerity Ecology: a Left Defense of Growth) for a smooth, sultry and wide-ranging conversation on John Newsinger's Hope Lies in the Proles: George Orwell and the Left out now from Pluto Press.
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